Well that made me laugh Donna. After all my research showing poor tenant farmers, fishermen, ropers,painters , labourers etc - no way could a USA politician turn up ! Could it ? In the 1851 census Ann md to Thomas Bell was aged 59 & in 1861 she is aged 74 so I've been trying to work on her chr as being more 1787 - 1791 range. That would make her round 22 when she md Craine rather than round age 15. A death of a Robert Craine in 1827 would fit with her then marrying T Bell in Dec 1828. This first marriage would explain the stepdaughters - Thank you Frances for finding one more step dau whom I had not found.